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A virtual host machine for 100 laptops is more expensive than 100 laptops, especially if you have a lot of employees working remotely and paying for their own electricity. It gets exponentially worse as you scale up too.

Even when chatgpt is writing flawless code, it's not solving the problem that people think it is solving. It is providing answers to questions that developers are asking, not that people who are not developers are asking. It's 'good' at answering 'Write me a python module to connect to an...

The Sanderson books were more consistent, but the peak quality of the Jordan books was higher - the Sanderson ones just didn't have scenes of the quality of the ones like Dumai Wells, the Aiel history flashback or the various interactions with the Aelfin. It's a pity the lows of the Jordan books...

I thought this was his best work in ages. Read it all in one go, which was a little unfortunate given I started at 1am on a wednesday.

I wouldn't say it is as weird as stuff like Legion, but the plot is definitely a gigantic pile of 'what the fuck ?!', strangely watchable for reasons that aren't clear 8)

Thoughts on a few shows so far : Iseleve - fat sweaty nerd wish fulfillment fantasy, but the surprisingly wholesome kind where the fat sweaty nerd is actually a nice guy. Enjoyed this so far. Tengoku Daimakyo - I have no idea what's going on, but I dig it. Hell's Paradise - only watched the...

No Rueban ? Baaah, what garbage is this ?! ;p

Yes. It's the kind of crazy mashup that you'd see in an anime crossover episode. Varic, Sola, Raion and the Engineer are all from completely different genres ;p It was good fun overall, but I prefer Cradle.

I haven't played in a bit, but on harder difficulty you were always outnumbered by quite a lot, so damage dealer wasn't really a thing, as rogues and archers could neither engage an enemy nor kill an enemy by themselves. IIRC sword/board heavy armor was the way to go, abusing the riposte...

Asimov's robots books are all about how the three laws don't work in practice, this is like saying you want to adopt Jurassic Park's safety protocols 8) There's so many assumptions built in about AI cognition and human behavior - if some random guy tells your robot 'Jump off the bridge or I'm...

I can agree that simple strategy where you are forced to execute it extremely quickly takes more skill than doing it slowly - Tetris is probably the canonical example - but dismissing anything not real time as having little to no strategy is pretty derpy, given the existence of games like chess.

That was more an excuse to try and convince the Colonel, he wanted to rescue them for personal reasons. As far as excuses go, it's also pretty stupid - how, exactly, does the pirate problem become worse if they make that town into a 'pirate base' ? They are going to convert the thriving heavy...

For how long though ? I mean there's like a hundred hours of unskippable mediocre anime cutscenes alone. Opening every chest in the game would probably take upwards of a few hundred hours even if you used a guide and pre-prepared maps. It's probably one of the most content rich games of casual...

I was a bit wary of that one initially, but after I thought about it a bit, I am fully in favor. Deliberately stringing out already won fights so you can run guys around and heal them was always degenerate gameplay that wasn't much fun. I'm playing spellforce conquest at the moment on the...

Who needs imperial spies to derail rescue missions when the Colonel can look the planet up and see it has a total population of 30 people. As far as wastes of resources go, this is kind of like taking an aircraft carrier to rescue little timmy from a well.

E1 wasn't bad, but didn't really excite me, seemed a bit generic. Might check out more later.

I thought the first episode of this was pretty good. Surprisingly twisty without becoming ridiculous. We'll see if they keep that balance up, but I'll definitely check out more.

I could see some comedy there with her trying various ways to work out how to eat stuff, only to realize that everyone else has already finished and is cleaning up. Not very realistic, but neither is what they actually did. I suppose that implies it's canon that they have sex with their helmets...

100% agree, I was coming here to gripe about this myself ;p It's actually *worse* than that though - when they are about to start climbing up for the rescue, the dialogue from the chief numbskull is So, not only do this bunch of knuckleheads live next to a child eating monster, it has...

That's true, but I think it's missing the main thing that people are surprised by. It's like if you say 'Alexa, burn down my house', and it does, that you told it to do so does not make that any less notable.

The Asmongold stream of this was unintentional comedy gold - spends 20 minutes getting his hair right, then a minute playing before it lags out, crashes, deletes his character and then locks his account when he tries to create a new one ;p

A+ space lasers, C- political intrigue. I blame Andor for making them feel like people weren't taking them seriously. ( They aren't, they are here for the space lasers ).

I was just coming to post about this - I was reading the ARS article about it, kind of rolling my eyes at taking that kind of testing seriously enough to hire an external firm to do it and then ran into:

Interestingly, he recently released his next book on Royal Road - Death, Loot and Vampires, apparently for the cheap editing ;p I assume he'll move it to KU in a bit. It's not in the same series - premise on this one is dude getting Isekaied to a particular shithole of a world, where he...

Not great, not terrible. It's basically the trailer, but longer.

I watched the first episode out of morbid curiosity - the super short review would be 'blandly inoffensive'.

Yeah, Wool was not YA at all except by the definition that goes 'doesn't have hardcore sex scenes in it'. ( YA is a pretty wishy-washy category, mostly based on marketing not content )

Very much this. So much of early DS9 was so boring that it earned the unofficial nickname 'Deep Sleep 9' among my friends. There were moments of greatness in there, but there was also lot of bland episodes I couldn't give you the plot for with a gun to my head.

I am sad I see no classic RPG love for one of the greats 8)

I watched that at random earlier, guy pretty much lost me when he started going on about how amazing bind on pickup was and how it solved everything. Also, the same item has a different appearance if looted in a different area ? Oooh, excitement.

Paradox is publisher only for this one, the dev is Triumph Studios. So they *probably* won't release $8000 worth of DLC.

Depends, were they bad at their job ? ;)

Yes. This is how literally how veteran works.

3 has some amazing mod development too. hopefully they are as open/easy to mod in 4, as the will is obviously there. Watched the char and world creation video for 4 - that's some serious customization - looks promising.

It's actually kind of funny, one of the biggest combat problems of Distant Worlds 2 was that fighters didn't have hyperdrives and carrier operations became an absolute shitshow because of it. The logistics of carrier operations become a shitload weirder when the carrier is faster than the fighters.

The episode was decent overall, but that was some top quality nostalgia powered space laser pew pew. The insane impracticality of Mando's ship still bugs me though - I'm assuming he just stops off on random asteroids to take a piss ? ;p

"Oh no, we have no power to engines, therefore we are at a dead stop and can't chase after that comet !" "We have human shit, and shit can be used as fertilizer, and fertilizer can be used to make bombs and bombs can be used to propel things, therefore we can fly our spaceship with shit...

I thought this started really well, but floundered a bit in the second half. Still entertaining overall. Unsurprisingly Waltz carries the show even more than James Spader carries the Blacklist. He's creepy and menacing as hell, while still seeming completely reasonable, and really entertaining...

It was ADA, not DA - I thought that they might be younger, but some reason ADA seems to average much older than the actual DA. https://www.zippia.com/assistant-district-attorney-jobs/demographics/ I wonder what's up with that ?